EAS intersects 183.5m grading 1.28 g/t gold at Miwah

East Asia Minerals Corporation reported Friday that diamond drilling continued to significantly expand the Miwah gold mineralization in Aceh Province, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

Results have been received for drill hole EMD012A collared 165 metres east-northeast of previous EAS drilling where 2.11 g/t gold over 100 metres, including 4.81 g/t gold over 30 metres was intersected in EMD008. EMD012A encountered 1.28 g/t gold over 183.5 metres, including 2.11 g/t gold over 77.7 metres, it said.

To date EAS has drilled more than 900 metres strike length along the shallow, laterally extensive 1.2 kilometre long Main Miwah Gold Zone. East Asia has encountered wide intercepts of gold mineralized rock in all of the holes it has drilled to date on the Main Miwah Gold Zone. The Main Miwah Gold Zone remains open in all directions.

The Miwah Gold Prospect was partially defined by approximately 3,000 metres of drilling in eleven holes by a previous explorer in 1997. All holes drilled during this program intersected significant alteration and mineralization with intercepts including 71 metres of 1.4 g/t gold and 58 metres of 1.1 g/t gold. The previous explorer suggested potential for 100 Mt at 1.1 to 1.2 g/t gold, however a review of the historical data indicates that early drilling was parallel to higher grade (greater than 5 g/t gold) structures at surface.

EAS is an Asian-based, Canadian mineral exploration company with gold and copper exploration properties in Indonesia, and uranium exploration properties in Mongolia. In Indonesia the Company has a 70 to 85% interest in six advanced gold and gold-copper properties located in Aceh Province, Sumatra, and Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi. Two of these, the Sangihe (Binebase-Bawone) and Barisan 1 (Abong) gold projects, are being advanced to define NI43-101 compliant resources. (alex)